Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERStatesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
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How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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